Technician Lab

Noah Norton

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Education

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Master of Public Health Major: Community Health Promotion

GPA: 4.00/4.00 Graduation Date: May 2020

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Science, Major: Biochemistry GPA: 3.54/4.00, Deans List: 2 Semesters

Certificate of Global Health Graduation Date: May 12, 2018

Applicable Skills:

Clinical laboratory skills: plasma cell separation and ELISA plates.

Biochemical skills: PCR, Nickel Affinity Chromatography, gel electrophoresis, elementary knowledge of PyMol, FRET, enzyme kinetic analysis, and enzyme stability analysis.

Organic chemistry skills: Sn1, Sn2, E1, E2, electrophilic aromatic substitution, Grignard, and Suzuki reactions. Can also do distillation, chemical reflux, thin layer chromatography, HNMR, CNMR, HPLC, infrared spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry.

Graduate education in elementary biostatistics and epidemiology (2 semesters each).

Proficient in R and Stata.

Able to conduct thorough research and condense it into executive summaries to communicate it to people outside the discipline of interest.

Creating a thorough budget and budget justification for program implementation and evaluations.

Past Employment:

Minnesota Department of Education

Job Title: Student Policy Research Intern (October 2019 – February 2020; 10 hours per week)

Conducted thorough research on social and emotional learning and its impact on student outcomes pertaining to post-secondary educational attainment and career outcomes.

Condensed research on social and emotional learning into a policy brief to be used to educate state law makers on how to effectively implement policy that furthers social and emotional learning on the state level.

Created an executive summary for the commissioner of the Department of Education to inform them of the main points on Social and Emotional Learning so they can communicate them.

Fairview Health Services:

Job Title: Anatomic Pathology Technician (June 2017 – Current; Summer: 40 hours per week, Rest: casual status)

Conducted plasma cell separation on patient bone marrow for Fluorescent in situ Hybridization (FISH) analysis.

Prepared reagents for various laboratory tests throughout the lab.

Retrieved specimens from main lab for our lab on an hourly basis

Checked the status of specimens for both the lab and for physician requests.

Databased past patient Comparative Genomic Hybridization results for later use in clinical diagnostics.

Organized patient cases and billing for medical director review.

Had to multitask between all duties mentioned above and had to budget time wisely.

New Hope Parks and Recreation:

Job Title: Head Lifeguard (2015-2017; 35-40 hours per week) Seasonal Summer Job

Supervised staff throughout the shift, making sure lifeguards were actively surveying their areas and enforcing safety policy of the pool.

Communicating pool safety guidelines with the public to ensure they were understood and followed.

Supervised daily finances of the pool.

Job Title: Water Safety Instructor (2015-2017) Water Safety Assistant (2014)

Educated youth ages 3 to 13 years old about basic water safety (basic survival, diving, and swimming techniques) for different environments such as lakes, pools, and rivers.

Volunteer Experience:

American Society for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry-Madison Chapter

Title: President (Student Organization)

Lead/organized biweekly meetings and attend outreach events such as teaching DNA extraction to children at the Wisconsin Science Festival for the organization.

Porchlight Inc.

Helped distribute free food to the Madison homeless population and run the food pantry by assisting Porchlight residents in supplementing their weekly groceries.

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